Superman Termination Manual

On the evening of June 20, the Ke Bai residence was particularly desolate.

Ke Yinzhi and Bai Qiuwu were eating at the kitchen table, chatting about the events of the past six months. The two of them were deceiving themselves and each other with nonsense so natural, it seemed as if it had all really happened.

Ke Mingye monopolized the sofa in the living room, sitting there, head down, playing with his phone, while silently listening to their conversation.

If one were to say that perhaps one or two of the things Bai Qiuwu talked about that happened in high school were true;

As for the college life anecdotes his older brother recounted, such as "hanging out with transfer students," "going to internet cafes to play games with roommates," or "being punished by the teacher for failing classes," Ke Mingye would never believe that even a single word of it was true. It was all made up on the spot.

And it was made up poorly and perfunctorily, sticking to the most basic stereotypes of college students.

As he figured, for the past six months, Ke Yinzhi probably spent most of the time wearing a mask, flying between countries to handle supernatural events, punishing superheroes who broke the rules.

College was merely a name on paper; how could he possibly have time to really stay there? Most likely he just let the Management Bureau find a substitute to take his classes.

Ke Mingye grew tired of the two of them spewing nonsense back and forth, finding it more and more insulting to his intelligence, so he picked up the remote and pressed the power button on the TV.

The TV screen had only just lit up when a photo from a news event caught his eye.

In the photo, two rookie Magic Girls were making a cute pose for the camera. Magical Girl Ash stood between the two, arms crossed, looking like she was forced into it, very reluctantly striking a victory sign. Her face almost screamed I want to escape, her eyes looking off into the distance, not even facing the camera.

The female host sat elegantly, reporting a sudden incident in her standard announcer's voice.

"Just half an hour ago, Magic Girls Ash, Rainbow, and Feng successfully assisted the police in capturing the superhuman fugitives 'Landmine Man' and 'Qima.' According to police records, these two superhuman criminals escaped from prison a month ago, attacked police due to a grudge, creating a critical situation,"

"Fortunately, amid the police struggle with the criminals, the three Magic Girls stepped forward. With their courage and intelligence, they successfully captured these two fugitives, resulting in no casualties among the security personnel and bystanders during the incident."

I was wondering why she wasn't at home, so she took the new recruits on a mission... Ke Mingye stared at the TV at Bai Zini, thinking, what were the others doing?

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At the same time, at one end of the Wine Reflecting Coast.

Bai Ziling stood on the deserted beach, her back against a huge rock, her right hand clutching a bag of blood, sipping it through a straw.

Today she had not found a suitable person to prey on; the criminals, robbers, and such were nowhere to be seen, and she was too lazy to purposely travel far, so she ended up stealing a blood bag from the hospital.

Her feet were bare, her sandals set aside, as the seawater gently caressed her toes.

The black tide broke onto the shore, shattering into white foam. An unexpected sea breeze blew, chillingly lifting her bangs, her pale strands of hair seemingly scattering in the wind.

Bai Ziling scratched her forehead with her hand, quietly gazing at the distant horizon.

Suddenly, she turned her red eyes and said softly, "It's you again."

The young dragon hid behind some nearby rocks, cautiously peeking its head out, carefully watching her: "If you don't want to see me, I'll leave right away."

Bai Ziling looked at it for a while, then shook her head: "Have you been following me all this time? Since when?"n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"For a very long time, a very long time ago."

"That long... Then why haven't you spoken to me?"

"I was afraid you'd dislike me," the young dragon paused, its blood-red eyes drooping down in the shadow, "I am a dragon."

"I am a vampire," Bai Ziling looked down at the sea at her feet, "I'm also afraid to tell people I'm a vampire, afraid they'll dislike me."

"Is it the family?" the young dragon asked.

Bai Ziling fell silent for a moment, then gently nodded.

"Though they're right beside you, you find you cannot speak. Though they're all kind to you, only you are the odd one out, forever feeling as if separated by an entire world... Is it that feeling?" the young dragon slowly said.

Bai Ziling paused, then said softly, "You're clearly a dragon, but you understand human thoughts so well."

"Because I have observed many humans," the young dragon said.

"Is that so..."

Bai Ziling hugged her knees and sat down on the beach, her eyes looking towards the undulating sea; the young dragon hesitated for a moment, then slowly moved its paws to sit beside her, crouching like a cat at her side.

A human and a dragon sat quietly on the beach under the moonlight.

"I know you're not a bad person," the young dragon said.

"I drink human blood, you know."

"I've even eaten a panda."

"You've eaten a panda?"

Bai Ziling raised her eyebrows slightly and turned her head to look at it with curiosity.

"I was young then and didn't know it was a panda," the young dragon said softly, "Everyone liked it a lot, and every day many people came to the zoo to see it. The internet was full of people cursing me, saying I deserved the death penalty, but at that time I was thrown into the zoo, I was very hungry and didn't know anything, and before I knew it, I had eaten many animals."

"That's so pitiful."

"Do you think the panda is pitiful?" the young dragon's head drooped along with its tail, like a child who had done something wrong, "I think so too, it did nothing wrong..."

"No, it's the dragon that's pitiful," Bai Ziling said as she reached out to touch the horn on its head, "You must feel very guilty, right?"

The young dragon didn't speak, only gently scratched its cheek with its paw and nodded.

"Will I grow up to be very frightening?" it suddenly asked.

"No," Bai Ziling shook her head, "At least not to me."

"Sometimes I can't tell... who I am. I always feel very lonely," it said.

"So do I," Bai Ziling said softly.

They both fell silent for a while.

"I have a question I want to ask you," the young dragon spoke up.

"What is it?"

"Can you be my friend?" the young dragon asked cautiously.

"Aren't we already friends?" Bai Ziling said.

Hearing this, the young dragon was stunned for a long time. It scratched its cheek with its paw, its tail lifted slightly, and it partly opened its mouth, but could not utter a single word.

They watched the sea quietly for a while, with the waves gently lapping at the young dragon's feet and Bai Ziling's ankles, the moonlight casting long shadows of the two, one large and one small.

"I have to go," Bai Ziling turned to look at it and softly broke the silence.

"Okay."

The young dragon nodded, cautiously retreating back into the shadows behind the rocks, waving a paw to the white-haired girl.

"Goodbye," it said.

"Goodbye."

Bai Ziling also waved back, then stood up from the sand, picked up her sandals placed to the side, leaving behind shallow footprints in the sand as she slowly walked away under the moonlight.